The creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy / Christopher J. Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Music in American lifePublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252095047 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Creolization of American culture : William Sidney Mount and the roots of blackface minstrelsy.DDC classification:
  • 781.640973/09034 23
LOC classification:
  • ML1711 .S63 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Recovering the creole synthesis : the roots of blackface minstrelsy -- The creole synthesis in the new world : cultures in contact -- Long Island and the Lower East Side : Mount's background, youth, and apprenticeships -- Minstrelsy's material culture : the evidence of Mount's portraiture -- Melody's polyrhythmic polysemic possibilities : the bodily evidence of Mount's music -- Akimbo culture : dance and the participatory pleasures of the body.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Recovering the creole synthesis : the roots of blackface minstrelsy -- The creole synthesis in the new world : cultures in contact -- Long Island and the Lower East Side : Mount's background, youth, and apprenticeships -- Minstrelsy's material culture : the evidence of Mount's portraiture -- Melody's polyrhythmic polysemic possibilities : the bodily evidence of Mount's music -- Akimbo culture : dance and the participatory pleasures of the body.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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